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Introduction
Part of the World War II
unit is the study of the impact of the conflagration on
various minority groups on the homefront. Students will be
researching the impact on one of the four groups: women,
Hispanics, African Americans, and Japanese Americans, and
write a short research paper. Mixed student groups will then
created a display paper summarizing the experiences of each
group.
Subject: United
States History
Topic: World War II Homefront
Grade Level: Eleventh Grade
Student Lesson name and URL: World War II Home Front -
ctap245.ctaponline.org/~rsetzer/student
Standards Addressed
Eleventh
Grade
US
History:
11.7 Students analyze the
American participation in World War II, in terms
of
5. the impact of
events on the U.S. home front including the
- internment of
Japanese Americans,
- the role of
women,
- the role of
Hispanics,
- the role and growing
political demands of African Americans.
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Instructional
Objectives
Students
will be able to
- evaluate
and explain the decision to intern the Japanese Amerians
during the war, describe the constitutional issues
involved, and its impact,
- describe
the shift from traditional women's roles to women's
increased participation in the labor force to meet the
needs of the war industries,
- describe
the migration of African Americans from the South to work
in the factories of the North and West,
- describe
and explain the increased immigration of Hispanics and
its impact.
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Student Activities
Introductory
Activities
- Review
roles of the various groups during the Great
Depression.
- Pretest
of students' knowledge about roles during the
war.
- Group
discussions about symbols in a Home Front
poster.
Enabling
Activities
- Students are assigned
to one of the four topics: women, Hispanics, African
Americans, and Japanese Americans. They will research
their topics from assigned readings and teacher
selected websites. Students will then produce short
research papers about their topics.
- Once the papers are
completed, students will be assigned to groups with a
member for each topic included. The group will create
a display paper about the general impact of the war on
the Home Front groups. Display paper is completed on a
large sheet of butcher paper and has accompaning
graphics.
Culminating
Activities
- Student groups will
create short quizzes for the entire class that might
be answered from the posted display
papers.
- Final assessment will
have questions about the activity findings on the unit
test.
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Assessment
Grading
rubrics will be created for research paper and the
display paper.
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Results
After
implementing your lesson (sometime between January &
March), insert a chart of your pre-test, post-test, and
culminating assessment data.
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Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory
Activity
Image
of the Home Front poster will be scanned into
site.
Enabling
Activity
Background information for research paper will come from
students' textbook. Specific readings (about 4) will be
selected for each Home Front group and make available in
the classroom and on the websites as .pdf files. In
addition, 4 or 5 websites will be linked on the page for
each group.
Culminating
Activity
Review sheet for the unit test will be posted on
website.
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School Name:
Florin
High School
School
Location: 7956 Cottonwood Lane, Sacramento, CA
95828
Your Name and
e-mail address: Ron Setzer, rsetzer@edcenter.egusd.k12.ca.us
Last Revised:
08/4/2000
"War! What is it good
for?"
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